Philip Hands writes:
 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 > 
 > > If and when I come up with something acceptable, it will
 > > be released to the qmail community, probably under the GPL, but definitely
 > > for free.
 > 
 > GPL-ing it will of course make it undistributable, since qmail's
 > distribution conditions are incompatible with the GPL.  You could go
 > for GPL-ing it, with an additional clause granting permission to link
 > it against qmail though.

It's perfectly fine if you GPL the patch.  You could argue that that
makes the resultant source and executables impossible to distribute,
but you *already* don't have permission to distribute modified sources 
and executables.

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